Saturday, April 2, 2011

I recently completed a series of ten portraits of some of the architects that have impressed me over the years.I used a variety of sources for the likeness and allowed my personal expressiveness to determine composition and technique.All are crow quill pen and ink – with some incorporating extensive use of ink wash(es).They appear here in the order in which they were produced along with explanatory captions.

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Louis Kahn: At his best achieved an intense timeless quality.

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Christopher Wren: In the 1600s Wren was forced by governing agencies to add two unneccessary columns to his design- it wasn't until damage inspections following WWII that it was revealed that both columns stopped just short of the ceiling (!!!).